NOOOOO! I was the only one who was supposed to know about artistic printing! That's why Doug Clouse and Angela Voulangas wrote and compiled The Handy Book of Artistic Printing! So I could read it, buy it, become enlightened, and set about to slaveringly conjure up my own new artwork out of it. Now everyone will know about the amazingness of artistic printing! How could you, mediareport? How? Could? You?posted by redsparkler at 10:43 PM on June 8, 2009

Ha, but that's a little unfair. Ware's work is about a lot more than this kind of design. And as someone at the Comics Journal message board says:

Yeah, Ware is pretty upfront about this. Daniel Raeburn's book has a lot of direct comparisons between period design and Ware's stuff. In many cases, it was striking how little he changed from the original image.posted by mediareport at 5:15 AM on June 9, 2009

Thank you for this. How I love Victorian-era advertising. Once I found a bound 1897 Sears-Roebuck catalog in my library's reference section... I could have stayed there all day.posted by Ladybug Parade at 6:36 AM on June 9, 2009

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